Produced Linda Gail Lewis record, played Buddy Holly, GBOF, retired (over 100) club, National Enquirer photog and I watched Jerry and Kerrie's backyard wedding from roof and partied till dawn at Hernandos. Popped tabloid cherry by selling original Jerry Lee mugshot and arrest report from Elvis "assassination attempt." Front row for Fats and Friends. karate chopped by Killer, New Year's Eve, Ritz, 198?, after he saw my girlfriend and said, "Git rid of him, and we'll make love."
Interests:
jerry lee lewis, linda gail lewis, frankie jean lewis, myra gail lewis, killer, chiller, International Affair, Hernandos Hideaway, Bonnie Bakley, K.K., Pumpkin, Jaren, Sean
Read more on this video, which borrows heavily from Tony Palmer's"All you need is love."
The epic depiction of the Killer on his Golgotha, here: - orig. posted 11/6/10 - updated 1.6.19.
Before Mike Judge made them cartoons, this documentary explored the life of Jerry Lee Lewis by the PEOPLE who knew him best: little sister Linda Gail Lewis (i produced her first solo record in 15 years, International Affair 1991), and unbowed, relentlessly-crucified Myra Lewis Williams, the first Rock 'n' Roll girl, who not unlike Tracy Lords, nearly annihilated the entire music industry, innocently laying waste to the Killer's career for years - and the only reason Jerry Lee is alive.
(2) Jerry started dating her in 1972 when she was 15.
(3) He used to brag that she could "suck the chrome off a car fender"
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musician, producer of Linda Gail Lewis, retired Jerry Lee Lewis audience member, after realizing i could never beat Gary Skala, or PC. recently kicked out of some terrible Jerry Lee Facebook group by someone not qualified to shine JLLs shoes, much less run a page. i once camped out on a roof in memphis with a photog from The National Enquirer, and watched Jerry and Kerrie's backyard wedding at the McCarver house. I popped my tabloid cherry, said Frankie Jean, by obtaining and selling the original Jerry Lee mugshot and accompanying incident report from the night Jerry Lee tried to "assassinate" Elvis, and was arrested. Frankie Jean said, "I'm so proud of you. Linda Gail and I have been doing that for years." Lastly, I was front row at Fats and Friends, without a doubt, the greatest show I've ever seen from the front row. P.S. I was also karate chopped by the Killer, New Year's Eve 198?, after he saw my girlfriend and said, "Git rid of him, and we'll make love." oh, yeah, I played Buddy Holly in the worst movie of all time, GBOF. Jerry came to the set one night, and when Adam, the director, introduced me to the stand-in for Killer's best friend, he said, "Oh, Killer, I know Killer." Then he took the meerschaum out of the side of his face, really looked at me in costume, and said, "Son, you look more like Buddy Holly, than Buddy Holly ever did!"
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Produced Linda Gail Lewis' comeback record. I played Buddy Holly in the worst movie of all time, GBOF. Jerry came to set, and when the director introduced me to the Killer's dead best friend, he said, "Son, you look more like Buddy Holly, than Buddy Holly ever did!" retired Jerry Lee (over 100) member, camped out on roof with National Enquirer photog and watched Jerry and Kerrie's backyard wedding. Popped my tabloid cherry by obtaining and selling original Jerry Lee mugshot and arrest report from Elvis "assassination attempt." Frankie Jean said, "Linda Gail and I have been doing that for years." Front row for Fats and Friends, greatest show ever seen. karate chopped by the Killer, New Year's Eve, backstage Ritz, NYC 198?, after he saw my girlfriend and said, "Git rid of him, and we'll make love."
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Produced Linda Gail Lewis' comeback record, played Buddy Holly, GBOF. Killer said, "Son, you look more like Buddy Holly, than Buddy Holly ever did!" retired (over 100) member, on roof with National Enquirer photog, watched Jerry and Kerrie's backyard wedding and partied till dawn at Hernandos. Popped tabloid cherry by obtaining and selling original Jerry Lee mugshot and arrest report from Elvis "assassination attempt." Front row for Fats and Friends. karate chopped by Killer, New Year's Eve, Ritz, 198?, after he saw my girlfriend and said, "Git rid of him, and we'll make love."
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Produced Linda Gail Lewis record, played Buddy Holly, GBOF, retired (over 100) club, National Enquirer photog and I watched Jerry and Kerrie's backyard wedding from roof and partied till dawn at Hernandos. Popped tabloid cherry by selling original Jerry Lee mugshot and arrest report from Elvis "assassination attempt." Front row for Fats and Friends. karate chopped by Killer, New Year's Eve, Ritz, 198?, after he saw my girlfriend and said, "Git rid of him, and we'll make love."
Jason D. Williams didn't want to pursue new DNA test to prove Jerry Lee Lewis is his father
Jason D. Williams didn't want to pursue new DNA test to prove Jerry Lee Lewis is his father . Jason D. Williams is happy to let rumors be rumors. The rockabilly musician has long been rumored to be the illegitimate child of music legend Jerry Lee Lewis.
Everyone seems to like Charlotte though, even Kay Martin (who seems to hate all of Jerry's other ex's with the exception of Myra) & Kerrie (who made Charlotte welcome at Jerry's birthday concerts).
Kenny Lovelace, Me, and James Burton, backstage at HOB NOLA - Mack said it was about playing touch football with elvis
Jerry Lee Lewis duets with Mack Vickery on Mack's Rockin' My Life Awayfeaturing legends James Burton and Bob Moore(Nashville Now 1984)
Mack was mine and the Killer's favorite songwriter (Rockin' My Life Away, nuff said?), and i had the opportunity to spend a while with him at Jerry Lee's birthday party at the ranch in Nesbit, 1990, while recording Linda Gail Lewis.
Weird trivia:
i asked him what the song was about, and you'll never believe what he told me.
find the answer under the video in the comment section
Thank you for posting this. My husband would have been 78 years old today. He and Mack were best friends and he worked for years as Jerry's road manager.
Merle Kilgore sings his and Mack Vickery's When You Get on the Whiskey (Let Somebody Else Drive) with The Bama Band, Hee Haw, 1985
Maybe you've heard John Anderson's version?
It says in this book excerpt that President Reagan gave him a signed letter of appreciation for this song, because of Nancy's 'Just Say No' drug movement. (it didn't work though, because when i met him, i think he could hear the grass grow.)
Lyrics
I heard it on the radio and six o' clock news
Said, "You'd better not drive when you get on the booze"
The sheriff was on TV an a shakin' his hand
Said, 'We're really crackin' down you better understand'
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive
Started drinkin' on Friday and by Saturday night
They had be blowin' through a tube charged with DUI
Cuffed and booked and thrown in a cell
I was tryin' to sober up and tell him myself
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Just let somebody else drive
Forty eight hours is a long is a long time to kill
In a room full of drunks surrounded with steel
Hell's all the serve in a Metro Bar
So don't be drinkin' when your drivin' your car
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
"His name is Pete Drake. He got the brilliant idea one time to make his steel guitar talk and he actually does it, right now, with a beautiful song, Forever" -introduced by my hero Merle Kilgore
Pete Drake (George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Phil Spector) Talking Steel Guitar session
Performs:
"i'm just a guitar (everybody picks on me)"
"joggin'" only i've ever heard
"danny boy"
"bridge over troubled water"
thanks to the original uploader for finding and uploading to YouTube.
this little gem was found unmarked by a wonderful Memphis videographer, and lo and behold, through persistent viewing through reams of b-roll, i discovered this never-before-seen personal video message from Ringo Starr and Chips Moman to Pete Drake, wishing him the best for an unnamed award circa 1987. [Ringo and Chips were in Memphis preparing to record Ringo's Memphis album, which would soon be aborted and end in legal problems.]
the 'Pete'Ringo refers to, regarding finding country tapes in his car, is indeed, Pete Drake, who was the Nashville record producer responsible for convincing Ringo to cut a country record in Nashville with Nashville players, all on the basis of his coincidental discovery of Ringo's country music collection, discovered while picking him up at the airport. [their record became Beaucoup of Blues, winning more than a few top 10s, as well as critical accolades.]
1.the first thing that's on my mind, is,
and you better answer some of these. I know how to deal with you silent
but deadly types; twice as many questions as you want answered.
I went
and saw the Box Tops at Beachhead in Cleve, and saw Peggy and Sue
Million and the guys from Reigning Sound who were playing the next night
with Mary Weiss from Shanghai-la's. I vaguely even remembered the
singer guy, although it was the drummer guy who was married to Sue
Million who was nice enough to put me on the list, but back to the
Tops:
Fucking weirdest show.
Except maybe for James brown on PCP, or the
time George Jones rode off on the back of a motorcycle with a bottle of
Mariquilla in his hand and a 22-year-old Blond-driveler-Shintoist-yeah.
2. I know probably 99 different types of irony, and use them all the
time, and this was not one of them. Still not able to tell you if Alex
was being real or not, having seen his scroungy act (Little Fishes,
anyone?), and having seen his superconducting distant act (Panther Burns as sideman). This one was more like a Game Show host for the Sultana
Brunei. I knew the fee was six-figures or a hundred virgins. I
understood, but this was boring Cleveland, and an Oldies show at that,
and there wouldn't be more than 150 people. I guess it was Irony 101.
Anyway, they played "Whiter Shade of Pale" and a couple other ones, LX
on bass for Green Onions. I really am not prepared to mine my psyche to
explain. I go directly to the backstage orgy of me and Lx. I walk
backhand-tentatively, after being convinced by Sue that it would be fun
despite the weird scenes that I had, and the complete schizophrenic
quality of our long but sparse relations. He'd just finished
Burn-N some High Grade Locoweed. Still, so Sue goes first and does
the'remember me? I met you at western sizzlin' when.
3. I was a waitress, and watching graceless; he's lookout-inchoate.
I can only describe a very lax Hamiltonian.
Not sure which way he's
gonna go with the whole remember me reply, but then. I look around and
it's a whole different backstage scene, man. Local radio DJs. I assume
from oldies stations, family members of other boxtops, Midwestern
people. I still have not figured out; and Sue is dressed like Adultery
Vaudeville. Somehow that took a little pressure off me in case he decided
to let her have it. I knew that it'd be OK. I knowing. I
make her cry, then Alex mightn't able to make her morph into a bush. So
he's doing that lx-thing, and cachepots, blowguns in the chasms of
his mind, and he's probably thinking about something, and she
finishes, and he says, "Oh, yeah, vaguely," and it works--shes happy and
he's still thinking, and nobody gets hurt.
4. Now its my turnaround course. Smart enough to just stand there
and look at him without risking saying any words that might be used
against me in his comeback--he looks a lot older, handsome. From the
last time, maybe 7, 8 years ago, we had a good, weird New Orleans
evening together, and he was the Incontestability. I was buying the Cuba
Libras, and he breaks out in the biggest grin you've ever seen and does
the whole what the fuck are you doing here-routine with, so far, no
repercussion I haven't seen anyone I know yet, except for the night
before with Peggy and that guy who frowns, and its great. I really am
believing in it, just a little suspicious. I don't know if it was
the extra ADD, or whatever. I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I talked
to Alex. I would have never done probably as the first person since I've been here; so it was 7 months-worth of stuff; and
with me, ya know, I can go a little bit overboard, to say the least,
with the questions, and if
5. you let me get away with one the second one's gonna be even
weirder and then exponentially on and onto. Up to the question about
something like, hey, Ive been meaning to ask you, do you remember a guy
around Stax nicknamed Super Whitey. I was doing Linda Gail's
record........you can imagine....well, that was the tipper: Jekyll met
hide and it was memorable: something like this.
I asked him about
that bouncer guy at that weird bar in the seventies that's in that
Memphis book who sang on that Bach's bottom stuff, and was an Eggleston/Chilton Quaalude-pal ... not a good start; so it was, you know, marry the
problem with questions about things you know a little bit, but you have
no idea what it is that you're talky about--it was kinda like Andy
Griffith and Barney. I was just smiley and lovey, but he smelled blood
and the whole place stopped and was presetting the oldies star who sang the letter. And then it got downright absurdity, denying knowing anybody
that was a bouncer, and, the best one was, and even Gary from boxtops
laughed at this one--that he never knew anyone in Memphis who carried a
gun.
I couldn't contain myself and. I think. I told him how. how I met Cyndi
Underwood; how she leaned over the Tenna bar to me. I just gotten offstage with you guys, and asked me if...I wanted to go back to her
place and have some Lemon Meringue pie, and she was wearing a fur
coat--nothing on underneath, and then her Derringer fell onto the floor out of her boots...well.
6. I don't know if he knew her, Vouchsafe, KNEW her, but he did some
more stuff, and about ten minutes later it normalized out when I brought
up Harold Cowart, my Louisiana bass player buddy, who used to play with John Fred, etc.
Ya know, trying to throw in the obscure cool thing.
I
think it heated off and worked. Cut to Gary Top; got in the conversation,
and Alex started telling stories 'bout the playboys, and it was
great. I never thought I'd hear those stories out of his mouth in a million years, and it was almost over.
I had a few more questions, like
about Katrina, which was his favorite subject apparently, and I got to
hear, I got rescued off my roof by a helicopter story.
I had not heard
before but which must have been almost rote, having been in New Orleans
for the past few months, and he told me some almost unreadable-for-sincerity--update about Gus, and that...I don't know.
And he was
eager to talk about the old gang, so we went over Rene, Ron (Easley), you (Doug Easley), Ross (Johnson), Don (Spicer), George R., and whoever else we could think of.
now keep in mind he's doing this. I think he can, at this point, at
least, give us barely perceptible rockstar eyebrow looks as one by one
the Beefaroni Midwestern middlebrows come by and hand him a Box Tops
record, DJs come up and talk about the show or their station, and one
woman hands him a picture of her boyfriend to sign crusher only piece of
paper she's got--on that one he starts to laugh and brings me into the
exchange, and gets close to the old evil LX.
I can recall couching
hidden sarcasms and practiced understatements... I was gonna write about
a bunch of stuff.
I say.
I'll save it for next time.
I may not ever
feel this prolific, thankfully, for you, again.
This is officially the
longest email I've ever written anybody.
Last night the festive stratosphere here at South by Southwest was interrupted when news broke that AlexChilton had died. As part of the Box Tops and Big Star...MIRACULOUSLY SOME EMBEDDED VIDEOS SURVIVE FROM THIS POST!
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